Common Voice Scripted Speech 23.0 - Santiago del Estero Quichua

[Quechua Santiago del Estero] — Quechua Santiago del Estero (qus)

This datasheet is for version 23.0 of the the Mozilla Common Voice Scripted Speech dataset for Quechua Santiago del Estero (qus). The dataset contains 12 hours of recorded speech (12 hours validated) from 23 speakers.

Language

Quechua Santiago del Estero, identified by the ISO 639-3: qus, belongs to the Quechua II group.

Demographic information

The dataset includes the following distribution of age and gender.

Gender

Self-declared gender information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this gender.

Age

Self-declared age information, percentage refers to the number of clips annotated with this age band.

Writing system

Quechua language is written in the Latin script. All Quechua dialects form words by sequentially adding suffixes to a root and follows a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. Unlike most Quechua dialects, which employ a standard three-vowel system, this dialect is typically written using five vowels.

Sample

There follows a randomly selected sample of five sentences from the corpus:

waay wata chunka pishkayoq
qallarerani llamkayta chunka shoqtayoq kaptiy
chunka kanchisnyoq kasarakorani
chunka pusayoq  waata aperani
qosay chunka esqonniyoq tiyapun

Automatic random samples

tatay sikilu kan
añangu aqnalu kan
mikunapi sapallan tiyani
mikuna wqllikun
qosay maeqador kan

Sources

Sentences were written by Mrs. Margarita Taboada

Community links

• Common Voice translators on Pontoon

Contribute

• Contribute voice recordings

• Contribute sentences

• Validate recordings

• Review sentences

Acknowledgements

We extend our gratitude to Mr. Oscar Chávez Gonzales of the Peruvian Ministry of Education for providing invaluable information.

Datasheet authors

• Luis Camacho camacho.l@pucp.pe

Citation guidelines

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following publication:

bibtex    @article{Camacho_2024,
    title   ={Automating the Proposition of Neologisms for the Quechua Language},
    volume  ={54}, DOI={10.1017/S0025100324000227},
    number  ={3},
    journal ={Journal of the International Phonetic Association},
    author  ={Camacho, Luis},
    year    ={2024},
    pages   ={922–938}}

Funding

This dataset was funded by the Mozilla Foundation Open Multilingual Speech Fund.

Licence

This dataset is released under the Creative Commons Zero (CC-0) licence. By downloading this data you agree to not determine the identity of speakers in the dataset.